# Node Exporter crashing frequently

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/node-exporter-crashing-frequently/23864>\
**Category:** Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)\
**Created:** [July 24, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/node-exporter-crashing-frequently/23864 "2023-07-24T17:12:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Muralipmm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/muralipmm/32/21672_2.png) [@Muralipmm](https://forums.percona.com/u/Muralipmm)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/node-exporter-crashing-frequently/23864/1 "2023-07-24T17:12:33Z")

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## Description:

We are frequently observing internal server error on node exporter on the PMM2 instance and node metrics stopped populating.

## Steps to Reproduce:

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## Version:

2.32.0

## Logs:

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## Expected Result:

[What the user expected to see or happen before the issue occurred]

## Actual Result:

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## Additional Information:

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**Author:** ![Vadim\_Yalovets](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/vadim_yalovets/32/43_2.png) [@Vadim\_Yalovets](https://forums.percona.com/u/Vadim_Yalovets)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/node-exporter-crashing-frequently/23864/2 "2023-07-24T20:40:29Z")

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Hello Murali,

Could you provide some snippets of logs with the error?

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**Author:** ![Muralipmm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/muralipmm/32/21672_2.png) [@Muralipmm](https://forums.percona.com/u/Muralipmm)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/node-exporter-crashing-frequently/23864/3 "2023-07-25T15:06:47Z")

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hi @Vadim_Yalovets ,

There are no errors on the logs.

Also , at some point node exporter will start sending the metrics and no datapoints on grafana

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**Author:** ![Muralipmm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/muralipmm/32/21672_2.png) [@Muralipmm](https://forums.percona.com/u/Muralipmm)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 2:53am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/node-exporter-crashing-frequently/23864/4 "2023-08-07T02:53:10Z")

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Hello @Vadim_Yalovets ,

Could you please help to address the issue?

We have upgraded to 2.38.1 and still we are facing the same issue.